Cate Blanchett Talks Her Role In ‘Pinocchio’, Says Guillermo del Toro Compared Her To A ‘Naughty 12-Year-Old Boy’

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“Nightmare Alley” director Guillermo del Toro had quite the compliment for Cate Blanchett. The actress recently chatted to SiriusXM’s Julia Cunningham and Jess Cagle, who mentioned an upcoming version of “Pinocchio” the actor was doing with del Toro.

Blanchett said, “I am playing Sprezzatura, the monkey. And I don’t know how it came about really. I think we were on set one day and I said, ‘When are we gonna work together again?’ And he said, ‘I’m doing Pinocchio’. “And he [gasped.] He’d said to me the day before that, ‘You are not this mysterious woman.

You are a really cheeky, naughty 12-year-old boy.’ And so he said, ‘Why don’t you play the monkey?’ I dunno. I don’t have any words.

I just make monkey noises for two hours. So yeah, that was fun.” READ MORE: Cate Blanchett Says Home-Schooling Her Daughter Edith, 7, Has Been ‘Traumatic’: ‘There Was No Respect There’ Blanchett also spoke about her role as Dr.